Biography

BIG WHEEL STUNT SHOW

Big Wheel Stunt Show is a small vehicle with a loud engine. By paring it down to rock and roll’s bare essentials, guitarist Evan Nagle, bassist Jake Melius and drummer Justin Gimse have proved that it’s not the size of your band that counts — it’s what you do with it. From Rolling Stone Spain, to KEXP, scribes and DJs across the world have been shouting their praise for 2012′s Wonderful Life, the Tacoma, Wash. band’s latest release. Like a carnival on drugs, Wonderful Life takes hold of your brain’s pleasure center and drops it straight down into Alice’s rabbit hole.

Produced by renowned Seattle guitarist and engineer Kurt Bloch (The Fastbacks, Young Fresh Fellows), Wonderful Life tells the tale of an ordinary American teenager whose normal, boring life takes a turn for the weird after a paranormal experience. The successor to 2011′s Cheetah Milque, Wonderful Life has a sound that’s funkier than the Tacoma Aroma, trippier than psilocybin and so heavy you couldn’t pick it up with a Caterpillar. From T. Rex to Little Richard, the Who to Sly and the Family Stone, Sabbath to Metallica, listening to Big Wheel Stunt Show is like the culmination of 5 decades of classic American music fused together into an immediate sound that anyone can enjoy. Your 10-year old nephew – Your 80-year old grandparents – Your mom – It’s the funkiest heavy metal you’ve never heard.

Recorded onto 2-inch tape at Egg Studios and mastered in Kurt Bloch’s basement, Wonderful Life isn’t just a selection of songs dripping with solos. It’s a sci-fi B movie rock opera about the life of a young person whose average existence is spun on its axis after s/he is abducted by aliens. “At the time we recorded the album, I was watching a lot of alien and UFO stuff,” Nagle admits. “I thought it would be great to have the album be a story about somebody who was raised in the church, in a stable home and start rebelling.” The character is an American everyperson without a gender or a name — a decision the band made deliberately. “We thought about it, but we thought the story would be better without one,” Nagle says. But this isn’t some sci-fi horror joint like Alien. Like its title suggests, Wonderful Life’s message is about the transformative power of adventures into uncharted territory that seem kinda scary at first. Like quitting your job to be in a band. For now, bassist Jake is the only one holding down a day job – at an aerospace company. Evan and Justin gave up the day job to focus on the dream. “I was a sales and marketing manager for a log home company when I met Evan,” Justin says. “I just stopped showing up. It was impossible to focus on it once the Big Wheel started rolling.”

Evan Nagle, Jake Melius, Justin Gimse

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